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Name Term description
NameBaxter Term description

One who bakes bread, cakes or pastries

NameBaxter boy Term description

One who bakes bread, cakes or pastries

NameBeadle/beddal/beddell/bedell Term description

Senior church or university officer

NameBeadman/bedeman Term description

A licensed beggar

NameBeamer Term description

In textile industry, wound the warp threads onto a roller before putting it on to the loom

NameBeetler Term description

Operated a beetling machine, used in the textile industry as part of the finishing process. The cloth would be pounded with heavy weights to flatten and close up the threads, thereby producing a sheen.

NameBeidman Term description

Bead(s)man, one living in an almshouse; pauper, beggar

NameBelkmaker Term description

One who makes belts

NameBellman/belman Term description

Bell-ringer, or town cryer

NameBelt-maker/beltmaker Term description

One who makes belts

NameBesom maker Term description

A maker of brooms

NameBirlayman/birlieman Term description

An arbiter in parish disputes

NameBishop Term description

Senior clergyman in pre-Reformation, Roman Catholic or Episcopal church, in charge of a see or diocese

NameBlacksmith Term description

One who works iron in a forge

NameBlaxter Term description

A person who whitens cloth or paper pulp

NameBleacher Term description

A person who whitens cloth or paper pulp

NameBlockcutter Term description

A person who makes the hand-carved blocks used to print patterns onto for example Textiles, paper, and linoleum

NameBlockmaker Term description

Trader, broker

NameBlockprinter Term description

A person who prints onto for example Textiles, paper or linoleum from hand-carved blocks

NameBoatbuilder Term description

One who makes boats

NameBoatman Term description

One who works in a boat

NameBoatswain Term description

Ship's officer in charge of the crew

NameBoatswain-yeaman Term description

Ship's officer in charge of the crew

NameBoat-wright Term description

Boatbuilder

NameBobbin turner Term description

A person who makes bobbins or spools out of wood for the textile industry